peach
Other forms: peaches; peached; peaching
A peach is a very sweet, juicy fruit with an edible peel and a hard pit in the middle. Peaches vary in color from almost white to yellow and pinkish-red.
Peaches grow on trees in temperate climates — they need warm weather, but they also require a hard freeze in the winter to produce fruit. Before the fruit grows on the tree, it blooms in beautiful pink blossoms. Ripe peaches drip with sweetness. Informally, you can refer to something or someone this nice as a peach: "Thanks for driving me to school today! You're a peach!"
Definitions of peach
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downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
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type of:
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edible fruit
edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
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drupe, stone fruit
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
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edible fruit
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cultivated in temperate regions
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synonyms:
Prunus persica, peach tree
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type of:
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fruit tree
tree bearing edible fruit
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fruit tree
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a shade of pink tinged with yellow
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synonyms:
apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink
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type of:
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pink
a light shade of red
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pink
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a very attractive or seductive looking woman
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divulge confidential information or secrets
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synonyms:
babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle
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Antonyms:
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keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth
refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information
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keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth
Pronunciation
US
/pitʃ/
UK
/pitʃ/
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